Maite Borjabad López-Pastor (Sevilla, Spain 1988. Lives and works between Bilbao y Madrid, Spain) is an independent curator, architect, and researcher whose work revolves around diverse forms of critical spatial practices, operating across art, architecture, and performance. Having worked as a curator for the past eight years with important large cultural institutions, such as the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she describes her curatorial practice as institutional infiltration engaging at the intersection of those disciplines as well as museum studies and institutional critique. Her work has unfolded through collection-focused acquisitions and installations as well as exhibitions such as Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rhame: If only this mountain between us (2021) or the performance commissioned to Cecilia Bengolea, Danza de las Materialidades Mutantes (2022).
She has served as a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Columbia University and has shared her research in important forums such as the Fitch Colloquium at Columbia University (2017) – where she presented Collecting Architecture and Moving Buildings. Maite Borjabad’s writing has appeared in renowned journals such as Harvard Design Magazine like her article, Rewriting History: The Benito Juarez Community Academy and her work has been celebrated in media such as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, PIN-UP, Domus, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Terremoto Magazine, La Tempestad or El Cultural.
She has served as a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Columbia University and has shared her research in important forums such as the Fitch Colloquium at Columbia University (2017) – where she presented Collecting Architecture and Moving Buildings. Maite Borjabad’s writing has appeared in renowned journals such as Harvard Design Magazine like her article, Rewriting History: The Benito Juarez Community Academy and her work has been celebrated in media such as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, PIN-UP, Domus, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Terremoto Magazine, La Tempestad or El Cultural.
